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chicuacentzontli.
Headword:
chicuacentzontli.
Principal English Translation:
2,400 (literally 6 x 400)
Attestations from sources in English:
In Nahuatl hieroglyphs, the centzontli sign will often look like a fir tree, but it can also appear as a clump of hair (tzontli), a bundle of sticks, or a feather. The cen- part can refer to one thing or something whole/entire. See, for example, these hieroglyphs for a tzontli or a centzontli, which all appear in our Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs:
centzontli (Mdz16r), https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/centzontli-mdz16r
centzontli (Osu2r), https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/centzontli-osu2r
centzontli (TK204v), https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/centzontli-tk204v
Tzontli (MH631r), https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/tzontli-mh631r
tzontli (TR21r), https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/tzontli-tr21r
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